When Kate Winslet stumbled upon the extraordinary story of Lee Miller she didn’t want to let go. Miller was an American photographer who became a correspondent for British Vogue during the Second World War,

Kate Winslet felt a deep connection to her role as the real-life World War Two photographer Elizabeth “Lee” Miller in the film “Lee.”

Kate Winslet, doing a gravel-voiced American accent that recalls her turn in HBO’s “Mare of Easttown” a few years back, plays Miller, who was born and raised in the U.S. but spent many of the century’s most tumultuous years in France and England.